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Table 2 Results of front page flash tests, giving the number of words recorded by the OVPF group

From: Newspaper reporting of the April 2007 eruption of Piton de la Fournaise, part 2: framing the hazard

Run

Date

Headline (see Table 1 for translation of headlines)

Theme

Average

No.

No Diff

Responses with frequency > 3 (English translation in parentheses)

1

03/04/2007

De la route à la mer (Fig. 5)

Lava

3.4 ± 1.3

62

26

route (9); lave (7); volcan (7); mer (4); rouge (4) (road, lava, volcano, sea, red)

2

04/04/2007

LE VOLCAN DEVIENT FOU (Fig. 6)

Lava

3.5 ± 1.1

62

25

volcan (11); chapeau (7); feu (6); fou (5); nuit (5); rouge (4) (volcano, hat, fire, mad, night, red)

3

05/04/2007

Alerte aux GAZ (Fig. 3)

Gas

3.6 ± 0.9

65

25

gaz (14); mer (11); fumée (6); alerte (4); coulée (4); volcan (4) (gas, sea, smoking, alert, flow, volcano)

4

06/04/2007

Le Tremblet sous les cendres (Fig. 12)

Ash

2.9 ± 1.3

55

23

cendres (10); Tremblet (9); parapluie (6); Bus + arête (4) (ash, Tremblet (the village of), umbrella, bus + stop)

5

07/04/2007

Le volcan s’effondre (Fig. 9a)

Collapse

3.1 ± 1.0

56

20

effondrement (14); volcan (10); cratère (4); Dolomieu (4) (collapse, volcano, crater, Dolomieu--the crater of)

6

09/04/2007

Le Dolomieu après le chaos (Fig. 7)

Collapse

2.9 ± 1.3

54

22

Dolomieu (12); chaos (7); après (4); cratère (4); effondrement (4) (Dolomieu, chaos, after, crater, collapse)

7

11/04/2007

Le nouveau visage du volcan (Fig. 10b)

Collapse

3.3 ± 1.2

59

24

cratère (7); volcan (7); nouveau (5); visage (5); Thomas Staudacher (4) (crater, volcano, new, face, Thomas Staudacher--Scientist-In-Charge of OVPF)

8

13/04/2007

Hier 15 h05 (Fig. 10c)

Collapse

3.3 ± 0.9

56

24

volcan (9); panache (7); cendre (6); hier (6) (volcano, plume, ash, yesterday)

9

22/04/2007

Les secrets de la Soufrière (Fig. 10d)

Collapse

3.1 ± 1.3

56

25

Soufrière (11); secret (4) (Soufrière, secret)

10

27/04/2007

La lave en route vers le Tremblet (Fig. 11)

Lava

3.4 ± 1.3

61

20

lave (12); Tremblet (10); coulée (9); route (6); rouge (4) (lava, Tremblet (the village of), flow, road, red)